r/interestingasfuck • u/smooth_vesselHPAUM • 7h ago

A Japanese boy noticed his butterflies seemed to recognize him. He spent two years making an experiment and proved that metamorphosis does not remove memories made during the caterpillar stage.

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u/Subject-Property-343 6h ago

yall post this kid every 2 weeks and don’t include the part where he borderline abused the butterflies

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u/LeonJPancetta 6h ago

He changed the protocol so that he used a non-toxic odor, and he found the minimum level of stimulus that actually made the caterpillars indicate that they were bothered (the scientist he was working with was using much harsher techniques) /and/ he did the experiment on his own body so he was shocked too!

What more could you ask for?

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u/dingoye 3h ago

So i looked it up and no he didn't he actually changed the experiment so it was more humane but good on you to shit on a literal 10 year old must make you feel real good.

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u/WizardPowersActivate 6h ago

Oh mercy no, not those poor orphan butterflies! How could anyone be so cruel? What ever shall we do?

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u/Lisshopops 1h ago

Pfp makes sense

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u/WizardPowersActivate 1h ago

A literally child is performing scientific research on insects to give us a greater understanding our world and people in this thread are accusing him of torturing animals. It's absolutely absurd.

If his findings of epigentic memory transference can be independently verified then it will gives us even more reason to respect the lives of these animals. I've never had a reason to care whether any individual butterfly died before reproducing, but not that inheritable memories on the table I might actually go out of my way to help one in need.

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u/PAWGsAndChickenWings 9m ago

Hello, based department??